Alberto Granado (1922 to 2011) was an Argentine-Cuban biochemist, author and scientist. Born in Hernando in the province of Cordoba, he studied chemistry, pharmacy and biochemistry at the University of Cordoba, took a master of science in biochemistry in 1946 and worked on leprosy at a leprosarium and a clinical laboratory. He is best known as the friend and travelling companion of Che Guevara on their 1952 motorcycle journey through Latin America, which he later described in the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara and which was a reference for the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries. He later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine.
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Granado was born on August 8, 1922
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where he studied chemistry, pharmacy and biochemistry
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He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara
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was an Argentine
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founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine
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